Kindred Lands to Freehold Estate: The ownership and transmission of the Gronant lands from the 12th to the early 16th century

Abstract

The lands which came to form the nucleus of the Gronant estate of the Bulkeley family from the first half of the 16th century almost certainly had belonged to two important Welsh kindreds from at least the 12th century. Although there is no known documentary evidence about the history of the Gronant lands before the Bulkeleys, through the medium of the genealogies, and information from some 16th and early 17th century records, we can trace their probable ownership and transmission down to Sioned, wife of Robert Bulkeley I of Gronant.